Blood Meridian

[Mark Thibodeau]

I love everything I've read and seen from Cormac McCarthy. His Appalachian
Gothic novels (Child of God and Outer Dark) are both easy reads AND rich,
complex reading experiences. I thought The Counselor was fantastic and
ahead of its time (post True Detective, it wears its darkness well). And of
course, The Road... the ultimate fathers and sons heart-stomper.

But yeah, I think Blood Meridian is his best in so many ways.

Jerky

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 10:25 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> i'm too old for Blood Meridian, now. I went thru a phase. Suttree sticks
> with me still
>
> and yet too young for Pynchon still. my anger breeds ephemeral
> rich
>
> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 10:20 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Suttree vs Blood Meridian?  Tastes differ, it seems.
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:15 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I would try Suttree, Joseph--a much better book than Blood Meridian
>>> (which I highly respect and would recommend but do not love).
>>>
>>> rich
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 12:15 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> First step to get out of hole, stop digging. First step to cooling
>>>> down, stop starting fires.  We want the evolution of the species to require
>>>> the sum total of human genius but what does that mean when so much skill
>>>> has been developed for burning down the house.
>>>>
>>>> There is a certain kind of gnosticism that sees this as a hell planet
>>>> ruled by deception.  In such a world fiends have a supernatural advantage.
>>>> McCarthy seems to waver between something like that and a kind of grim
>>>> survivalism. His is a mind I don’t care to visit ever again despite the
>>>> visceral prose style.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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